Edmonton Notes for 5/11/2014

Headlines

Good news for Remedy Cafe, The Hat, and other businesses affected by the looming demolition of the old Paramount Theatre: plans are now on hold. There’s no specific timetable, but ProCura promised tenants will be the first to know.

Alberta’s annual Arbor Day took place this week and to celebrate the City launched yegTreeMap, an online map to register the trees you plant. Looks like it includes all the trees planted by the City too.

I still haven’t seen one except for on television, but the Edmonton Police Service is “cautioning the public regarding a new trend involving the use of electronic cigarettes for marijuana use by youth.” Crafty young-uns.

This isn’t surprising, but ugh is all I can say. “As Alberta’s two largest cities breach the million-resident mark, Calgary is taking a tentative first step towards metropolises like Toronto and Vancouver while Edmonton’s approach to growth remains fundamentally unchanged since the 1950s, according to a new research paper.”